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head, in specimens of 9 inches. Color in life, dark orange brown above; 

 the center of each scale greenish blue; rather abruptly paler below, 

 where the blue predominates as it does also on caudal pediancle; sides of 

 head with 2 horizontal stripes of deep bluish greon, running from angle 

 of opercle through eye and meeting around snout, the interspace ante- 

 riorly yellowish, posteriorly l)rownish; head light greenish below ; jaws 

 pale; 2 green stripes, with a yellowish interspace on lower jaw; a 

 broad, briirht-yellow band below level of green stripes of head, running 

 from base"^ of pectorals backward nearly to middle of body; dorsal fin 

 greenish blue on lower half; above this a l>road orange band, the fin mar- 

 gined with sky blue; caudal indigo bluish, with some vague yellow 

 shades, the outer rays bright orange, edged with iudigo bluisli ; anal green- 

 ish, blue at base, then a rather narrow stripe of orange, the outer half of 

 the fin bluish; ventrals greenish and yellowish; pectoral light yellow, no 

 dark blotch at its base. In spirits the orange fades to yellowish and the 

 blue to bright green. The yellow lateral band is, in spirits, dashed with 

 red. West Indies; generally common. Here described Ironi specimens 9i 

 inches long from Havana, the types of Scarm virgitmlis. Others examined 

 are from Porto Rico and St. Thomas. The name psittacns has been used 

 by recent writers for this species. The original type of Coryplmma psitta- 

 cns, sent by Dr. Garden from Charleston, is still preserved by the Linmean 

 Society of London. It has been examined by Dr. Bean, who has found it 

 to be a Xyrichthys. {raivia, ribbon; itTspov, fin.) 

 Scarm Ueniopterus* Desmahest, Diet. Classique, XV, 244, pi. 12, IS.'il, Cuba; CuviER & 



Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv, 195 (same type) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



1886, 543 (note on original type) ; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 683, 1890. 

 Scarus vctula, Ccvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poias., xiv, 193, 1839, St. Thomas; not 



of Bloch & SCHNEIDER; based on a figure of Parra. 

 PseuAoscaritsvsittacuis, Gunther, Cat., iv, 225, 1862 (after Coryphcena psittacns, L., which 



is a species of Xyriehthys ; not Scarus lisittacvs, PorskAl, an Asiatic species); 



GuiCHENOT, Scarides. Mus. Paris, 25, 1865 : Poey, Synopsis, 347 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 116. 

 Scarus virginalis, Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 88. Havana (Coll. Jordan) ; 



Jordan, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 47. 

 Fteudoscarus tceniopterus, Guichenot, Scarides, Mus. Paris, 26, 1865. 

 Scarus psittacns, CoPE, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. 1871, 461. 



2060. SCARl'S ARAC.WOA (Giintber). 



Two series of scales on cheek, and 2 scales on lower preopercular 

 limb; canines 2 or 3 on each side, the middle series composed of 6 

 scales; lips broad; jaws rosy, the upper with 2 or 3 small pointed promi- 

 nences at the angle; teeth small; dorsal spines flexible; caudal trun- 

 cated; 14 pectoral rays; tubes of the lateral line simple; lateral line 



* We have the following notes on the type of Scarus tceniopterus Desmarest : 



" Specimen 0.27 m. long in very bad condition ; the color entirely faded. Cuba. (Des- 

 marest. ) The dorsal shows faintly 2 colors, with a spot at the base of each membrane. 



Another specimen from the museum at Geneva, 0.30 m. long, is in better condition. 

 The colors on the dorsal show more plainly, and there are 2 dusky bands on the anal. 

 The outer ray of caudal above and below is paler than the others. . „ j 



This is identical with the other specimen, and both seem to belong to the species called 

 Scarus virgiiMlis, by Jordan et Swain (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 88). 



